Articles by Grist staff

… and the Dammed

Construction of a $3.9 billion dam in Malaysia is expected to resume soon despite harsh criticism from environmentalists and human rights groups. The Asian financial crisis halted work on the Bakun Dam in the late 1990s, but the Malaysian government said this week that it wants to move forward with the project. The dam would […]

The Blessed …

Peter Illyn is a man with a plan — and a llama. He wants to save the environment one soul at a time, following the Christian rock festival circuit and preaching a green gospel. Illyn, with his llama in tow, is one member of a new army of “faith-based” environmentalists crusading to green America’s religious […]

Yachtsee!

Protesters in a flotilla of six yachts in the South Pacific forced a ship carrying spent nuclear fuel from France to Japan to alter its course yesterday. Greenpeace spokesperson Elisabeth Mealey said the flotilla in the Tasman Sea off Australia had achieved victory by forcing the ship to make the effort to avoid them. The […]

The Celebrating Jumping Frog of Riverside County

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service yesterday designated 4.1 million acres as critical habitat for the threatened California red-legged frog. The designation, the state’s largest habitat area for a threatened species, spans 28 counties from Northern California to Riverside County near Los Angeles. It requires landowners seeking federal building permits to prove that that their […]